338 A DECADE OF WORK AT’ HOME.  [1845, 
Some of the scientific reports will soon be published, 
Dana on the Corals, ete., which will, I suppose, be very 
creditable to him. When any of the volumes appear 
I am somewhat inclined to call public attention to 
some of this gross mismanagement and incompetency 
in these wrong-headed managers, in a review. I 
thank you very much for all the botanical news you 
give, and hope you will still favor me now and then 
with other such epistles. 
ave never worked so hard as for the last four 
years, nor accomplished so much. Still it will not 
show for much in your eyes, and I receive many an 
exhortation like yours to go on with the “ Flora.” 
But a world of work that could only be done by my- 
self, the pressure of the duties of my new position, and 
the necessity of taking, indeed of creating, and main- 
taining a stand that siould make my daphetosanit felt 
and appreciated, has indeed sadly interrupted the 
work which | am of all others most desirous to com- 
plete. I have already a great deal of matter in a state 
of forwardness, and another year (Deo favente) will, 
I trust, give you a better account of me. My last 
course of public lectures in Boston commences in a 
fortnight, and will be over towards the close of Feb- 
ruary. You will admit that there is some temptation 
to a person who has so many uses for money, when 
tell you that I received twelve hundred dollars for the 
delivery of twelve lectures, and that there are strong 
reasons beyond what the institution that employs me 
may justly demand, that I should do my best. This, 
however, will soon be over, and the “ Flora” shall be 
pushed with vigor. . . . I greatly long to revisit Eng- 
land and to see you all once more. Nothing would 
delight me more; and there is a world of work I want 
